In this essay, I rant and rail against my favorite villains - shopping, cooking and adornment.
Now, why would I be looking down on ladling soup? Because I just know everybody eats. Yes, we all eat. When I want to eat I go out, I get a bit of something and I eat it and it is done.
I don't want to be informed every day by every form of media that we eat.
How hard it is to go out and get something to eat? Our supermarkets have thousands of items literally falling off the shelves in our laps.
Out of the thousands of activities available to a human today, the last thing I want to look at is someone chopping vegetables or stirring skillets.
However it is a cheap way to make television and to make women feel bad so they wish they were shopping instead.
Shopping is ingrained in animals and if you see the fat squirrels in Central Park you understand our primal desire to augment ourselves by acquiring things, devouring and storing them in enclosures.
I don’t want to be a squirrel, nature struggled to make me not like a squirrel for thousands of years and I personally am grateful for evolution. I use most of my time inventing activities for myself that would employ most of my capacity as a modern human. That includes reducing the time I spend doing mammalling.
This is where I get bratty, a little stupid and arrogant and start ranting against everyday activities. Keep reading at your own risk.
Now every year around the holidays I get a little stupid too and go on the networks of the weak-minded and usually there’s a DeBeers commercial which immediately ambushes me around a digital scroll. There would always be several instances of cutting boards, shiny kitchens and mittens.
Why on earth would you need to stir something in several pots at once? And why on earth would you wear diamonds when you can string polished beer bottles?
Okay, the Universe took 15 billion years to get to make the human consciousness the way it is today. I am not gonna use most of its capacity to stir food. Now I sound like Marvin. Wish they had come up with at least one interesting female robot. I am sure they would try to outfit it with a handbag, or at least a pouch.
Why on earth would a female robot need boobs?
Why on earth would Hollywood directors put together female AIs for Hollywood actors to fall in love with? Hollywood gets a little bit less sentient every year.
I am glad they didn’t put female parts on roombas.
When was the last time that Facebook or Instagram or TikTok encouraged you to read?
I will tell you why because if you learn about the universe if you educate yourself about what surrounds us if you get a historical perspective, all of a sudden a $5,000 handbag will seem to you like a raccoon with a ribbon.
I remember the exact time when I realized the absurdity of the material world and materialism in the US, it was when I was in one of the Zen gardens in Kyoto and I looked out into the stone and sand garden and I'm like this has meaning! Just patterns in the sand and simple piles of rocks and there was no other arrangement other than the presentness of the sand and rock themselves.
The likes of CNN like to decorate women with handbags, aprons and diamonds and commit their time to pots to affirm their purpose as decoratable domestics.
Essentially the likes of CNN and Fox News and all the shopping networks like Facebook are telling you this: no, you're not worth anything unless you wear an expensive handbag and waste your precious time as human consciousness to show it off on the networks of the weak-minded like Facebook, TikTok and Instagram.
CNN, TikTok, and the New York Times don't like women that think, they like women who think that diamonds and handbags are worthy pursuits. The idea that a human being would trade their precious life for little bags and cut up shards is even more ridiculous than the idea of a grandma in England who lives in a palace and wears a crown.
The media has vested interest in the stupidity of women.
Not only women, media loves stupidity in all shapes and sizes and adores people who don’t do anything.
People who don’t do anything are the favorite poster activities of the networks of the weak-minded like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. They stare in the distance of sunsets or look toward the camera and make blurry faces. Usually in the background are large storage rooms of items with landfill future.
Facebook is invested in the stupidity of women. Instagram is invested in the denigration and stupidity of women. Because if women are put down and denigrated then they go out and medicate by acquiring items that hypothetically will increase their value in the eyes of society like handbags, real leather, diamond necklaces, precious metals and other shackles.
You are not a Webb telescope to need coating in precious metals
Just imagine the idea of skinning an animal in the 21st century in order to get decked out in it.
How about a group of poor people goes down a damp shaft to dig you diamonds and rubies. Real men in spectacles cut them up and other men give them to you to make you happy.
When I don't have a good argument about things I look into history to see what some of the smart dudes have done, and think about it and emulate it.
I try to imagine Newton decked out in diamonds? How about Aristotle do you think he's going to be decked out in rubies. How about Einstein you think he needs a real leather pouch?
As a human of the 21st century, I feel so lucky to live today, I would have been either guillotined, crucified, or otherwise dismembered had I lived any other time in history.
We are so freaking free, why imprison ourselves again to food preparation and self-decoration. I want to do precious things not wear them on a collar.
As if 100 centuries were not enough.
Women in ancient Greece, which prided in democracy, were imprisoned in their houses. Women in Rome were citizens but they were not allowed to vote or participate in public life.
There's so much in the lives of women that has been repressed over the centuries and continues to be repressed by media, broadcasting stereotypes, and stereotypical activities.
Try to watch any Hollywood movie by paying attention to the opening scene in a family home where the woman is always with an apron and in a kitchen, either stirring a pot or washing up at the sink.
This year at Christmas 2021 one of the CNN specials for Christmas was once again a woman stirring porridge on a stovetop wearing an apron with her two kids also stirring soup and wearing aprons.
Now I'm going to ask this nonrhetorical question.
Why didn't CNN have on their cover for Christmas for example Andrea Gaetz, a professor at UCLA and a Nobel laureate in physics? What is her reading list for Christmas?
Now I want to discuss another not rhetorical question I have regarding kitchens.
Why on earth would anybody in the 21st century devote half of their life and resources to owning many cupboards, utensils, ladles, pots and pans, utensils with very obscure purpose, pantries full of dried food ladled with chemicals and fillers and food coloring that cause cancer, why on Earth anyone living in the 21st-century burden their consciousness, burden their life with so many and various tools for food preparation when we're overflowing with garbage and obesity, and with overconsumption?
Here is my suggestion of things to do instead of stirring pots, getting pouches and likes
There are so many things to consume that cost you the price of internet - reading the entirety of human history, reading all the books ever written, the entire cosmos, all the science of the entire human race, the history of all countries and all peoples on earth, the geography of other planets. Black holes, the entire philosophy of mankind since writing was invented, the writings of all Indian Yogi, learn how everything in the world works, how trees make oxygen. All of human art from cave art to the classics to all the crazy modern art made anywhere on earth. You can learn art, physics, mathematics, robotics, computer science, rhetoric, anything and everything ever made.
Peace.